680 Mr. B. P. Uvarov on neio 



6 (type). $ (paratype), 



mm. mm. 



Length of body 13 17'o 



„ prouotiim .... o 4 ^ 



„ elytra 10 12-5 



„ hind femora . . 8'5 10 



Described from four females and eleven females from 

 Entebbe, Bweya, and Mwera, Uganda (C. C. Gowdey). 



This new species seems to be closely related to E. exigiia, 

 Boh, and E. pallida, Boh (Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. xix. 1911, 

 p. 92), described from Katanga, but differs from them in 

 the coloration of the head and the hind femora and tibiae. 

 It is not impossible that E. gowdeyi may prove to be but a 

 geoo^raphical race of one of those species, but this cannot be 

 decided without comparing the types ; in the meantime, 

 I prefer to separate it specifically. A somewhat aberrant 

 shape of the pronotum, as well as the horizontal and mar- 

 ginated fastigium of the vertex, together with the apically 

 rounded elytra, may be characters of generic value, but the 

 genera in this group are not yet sufficiently known, and 

 I refrain from describing a new genus. 



The coloration of E. gowdeyi is somewhat variable, and the 

 described type and paratype represent the two extreme colour- 

 forms ; the females are, as a rule, less conspicuously marked 

 than the males. 



4. Cardenius guttatus, sp. n. 



? . Of medium size. Face moderately reclinate; frontal 

 ridge feebly widened above the ocellum, somewhat con- 

 stricted at the fastigium, with the surface punctured through- 

 out and impressed in the vicinity of the ocellum ; margins of 

 the ridge callous, reaching the clypeus. Fastigium of the 

 vertex distinctly broader than long, with two lateral im- 

 pressions, punctured throughout, but more distinctly in the 

 median portion, which is not impressed; vertex between 

 the eyes as broad as the frontal ridge above the ocellum, 

 slightly concave, smooth, with the lateral margins distinctly 

 raised, but irregular, with a low, but regular median carinula 

 running right across the occiput. Pronotum conical, not 

 densely but very distinctly punctured ; its disc distinctly 

 convex in the prozona and less so in the metazona, which is 

 slightly shorter than the prozona and more densely, though 

 less coarsely, punctured ; no distinct lateral keels, the lateral 

 lobes forming widely rounded angles with the disc ; the 

 lower margin of the lobes callous, obtusely angulate in the 



